In a study published in the journal Science, Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences Ben Horton and an international team of scientists concluded that 125,000 years ago, when global average temperature was 1°C higher than pre-industrial levels, sea levels rose 20 to 30 feet higher than present. Sea level peaked somewhere between 20 and 40 […]
Archives for July 2015
Twin Study Shows That The Taste For Sugar Is (Partly) Genetic
Human tastes are capricious. What some of us like, others hate. What you hate one year, you may grow to love later on. But there is one taste that is almost universally liked: sweetness. When the tongue comes in contact with sugars (and non-sugar sweet…
How to Make it Rain in the Desert: UAE Fires Salt Rockets in Attempt to Seed Clouds and Trigger Much-Needed Downpours
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is trying to squeeze every last drop of rain from its clouds by launching salt missiles into them from planes. The technique is known as cloud seeding, and its purpose is to increase condensation in the hope that it might trigger a downpour… A leading academic told how he got a mysterious phone call asking whether foreign countries could be triggering droughts or flooding. Professor Alan Robock, from Rutgers University in New Jersey, said: ‘Consultants working for the CIA rang and said we’d like to know if someone is controlling the world’s climate would we know about it?’ ‘Of course they were also asking – if we control someone else’s climate would they then know about it.”… The professor is one of many scientists from around the world are actively looking at manipulating the weather as a way of combating climate change. Professor Robock told the callers that any attempts to meddle with the weather on a large scale would be detectable.
Rutgers Scarlet Strawberry-Infused Beer? Say Cheers!
A desire to connect local growers with producers was the driving force behind Jake Makely’s (SEBS ’16) idea to combine two of New Jersey’s favorite warm weather delights, strawberries and beer. Makely, an agriculture and food systems major, has been a student intern in Applied Analysis of Successful Agricultural Enterprises since February 2014, which has provided […]
Snyder Farm Open House and Great Tomato Tasting
Snyder Farm Open House and Great Tomato Tasting at the Rutgers NJAES Snyder Research & Extension Farm is on Wednesday, Aug. 26. The event includes the very popular tasting of more than 60 heirloom and hybrid varieties of beefsteak, plum, cherry, an…
5 Things Everyone Should Know About Washing Food
Everybody eats, and no one wants to eat something that could make you sick. But there’s a lot of misinformation out there about how and whether you should wash your food… Food safety is an important issue. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that each year one in six people in the United States will get sick because of food-borne illness. And risks can be increased or decreased at every point between the farm and your fork. Yes, you want to make sure to cook your food to the appropriate temperature, but here are some other tips to help you make good decisions in the kitchen… “Any time you’re going to eat fresh produce you should rinse it off, if for no other reason than to rinse off dirt,” said Don Schaffner, a food safety researcher at Rutgers. “And rinsing off produce may offer some risk reduction in terms of microbial pathogens.”
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Society Formed to Tap Nutritional Payload
The Spanish HQ’d Oleocanthal International Society (OIS) is comprised of scientists, nutririonists and players in the sector and research will look into the brain health and inflammation. It has been set up as a non-profit organization… Other EVOO ph…
Cumberland County 4-H Presents at National Marine Educators Conference
County 4-H Agent Julie Karavan was awarded the Expanding Audiences Scholarship, which allowed her to attend the National Marine Educators Association Conference in Newport, Rhode Island, held June 29-July 2. Karavan presented two professional development workshops related to her extension teaching and practice in Cumberland County. Her presentation, Aquatic Robotics, was offered educators information and […]
Prof. Jessica Ware (SEBS ’08) Wins Prestigious NSF Early CAREER Award
Rutgers-Newark biology professor Jessica Ware, who graduated with a Ph.D. in entomology in 2008, received an Early CAREER award worth $800,000 over the next five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Ware’s award will be used to examine how the social structure of lower-termite colonies might have arisen 140 million years ago, testing whether […]
THE GARDENER STATE: It’s a Fair Summer Indeed!
From the temperature and the calendar, we all know its summer time, when the living is supposed to be easy, even as we await the dog days of summer to reach us next month. But did you know that it’s also 4-H County Fair time in Central Jersey!?… Here…